by jared a. ball The TV One two-hour special last week featuring panel discussions on the Urban League’s State of Black America report demonstrated yet again the need for an organized and militant political movement and perhaps the preceding necessity of forcibly breaking through falsely established boundaries on our analyses. Much of the special was…
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Though most political conversation on social media is saturated with wholly unproductive anti-Trump rhetoric, Uncle Ben is out here on a sunken place parade and we need to pay closer attention.
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Prison has long been central to the maintenance of a racial, social and class structure in the United States. Prisons are used like society’s credit card. Societal contradictions which generate enormous wealth and inequality are masked by mass incarcerating those forcibly removed as a result just as credit cards mask the contradiction of stagnant wages for labor and enormous production of goods, services and wealth for bosses and owners. Thus, prisons, jails and their captives (both real and employed) are everywhere.
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